Parish Utilities Of Ascension, LA
Lead reported as not detected
Latest 90th-percentile lead: reported as 0 (not detected) (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. The latest 90th-percentile result was reported as 0 (not detected at the lab's limit). That says the sampled homes were low, not that your home has no lead service line. Check your utility's service line inventory for your address.
Parish Utilities Of Ascension at a glance
Parish Utilities Of Ascension serves about 9,732 people through 3,190 service connections, which makes it a medium-sized system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws surface water, in Ascension Parish County, Louisiana. EPA system ID: LA1005035; phone on file: 225-450-1070. They can tell you what your service line is made of and whether they pay to replace it.
Every lead result on file
Against the period ending 2023 (1 ppb) the latest result is about the same. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Parish Utilities Of Ascension is 1 ppb across 4 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb.
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1 ppb |
| 2020 | 1 ppb |
| 2017 | 1 ppb |
Against other Louisiana systems
Of the 802 Louisiana systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 0.72 ppb; 4 are over 15 ppb right now and 30 have gone over at some point. Parish Utilities Of Ascension's reported as 0 (not detected) sits at the 41st percentile in Louisiana and the 37th nationally (higher means more lead). Systems reporting 0 tie at the bottom, so the rank mostly reflects size among them.
Nearby utilities
16 other systems share Ascension Parish County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Parish Utilities Of Ascension. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| City Of Gonzales Water System | 16,806 | 1 ppb |
| Ascension Consolidated Utility Dist 1 | 2,229 | 0 (not detected) |
| Ascension Parish Water Works District 2 | 1,353 | 4 ppb |
| Diversion Water - Bayou Estates | 450 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cypress Trace Manufactured Housing Comm. | 140 | 0 (not detected) |
| White Oaks Manufactured Housing Comm. | 138 | 0 (not detected) |
| Plantation Mobile Home Village | 132 | 0 (not detected) |
| Roddy Road Village Ascension, Llc | 120 | 0 (not detected) |
| Diversion Water - Cypress Lakes | 111 | 0 (not detected) |
| Jimmy Babin Apartments | 96 | 0 (not detected) |
Your move
Look up your address in Parish Utilities Of Ascension's service line inventory. If it says lead, galvanized or unknown, test your tap. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Parish Utilities Of Ascension whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do.
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. Why sampled homes are the worst-case ones is in the guide to reading the number. Small systems behave differently: why small systems go over more often.